Flour-bolting reel



(No Model.)

P. E. MoMASTER.

FLOUR BOLTING REEL.

Patented June 7, 1887. 7,211

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS E. MOMASTER, OF MILLBURN, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLOUR-BOLTING REEL.

EBFECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364.428, date-d Jane 7, 1887.

Application filed July 21, [856.

Serial No. 203,570. (No model.)

To all whom it; may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS E. MoMAsTEIt, of Millburn, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Flour-Bolting Reel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to bolting-reels, and more especially to reels used in flour-bolts, and has for its object to provide simple, inexpensive, and durable cloth flaps for a boltingreel to make its action more quick and effective and to facilitate delivery of the material being bolted.

The invention consists in certain novel features ofconstruction and combinations of parts of the bolting-reel, and in its combination with the bolt-chest, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a cross-sectional elevation of a flour-bolt containing my improved boltingreel, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the reel.

The bolting-reel A is made with longitudinal ribs 0, supported from a central shaft, a, by spokes a in any approved way. The bolt ing-cloth B is fixed to the ribs a by nails or screws b, so as to form the periphery of the reel in the usual way.

In carrying out my invention I attach to the ribs a of the reel a series of external cloth flaps, O, and a series of internal cloth flaps, D. These flaps G D are attached at one edge only to the reel-ribs, and it may be by the same fastenings, I), which hold the boltingcloth to the reel-frame. The loose outside flaps, C,when they are at the lower side or half of the revolving reel, lie or hang with their loose or free edges away from the direction of motion of the reel, as is indicated by the arrow at] Fig. 1, and the loose edges of the internal flaps, D, extend at the lower side of the revolving reel toward the direction of motion of the reel. These flaps O D.are about as wide as the sections of the bolting-cloth R between the ribs of the reel, all as shown clearly in the drawings.

The-bolting reel A, as above described, is

journalcd in the usual way within the chest E of the bolt, which has an ordinary screw-conveyer, F, at its bottom.

The operation is as follows: As the reel A revolves in direction of the arrow 00 the outside L cloth flaps, O, as the reel reaches a pointin its revolution marked 1 in Fig. 1, will gradually drop over from the face of the boltingeloth B, and the free edges 0 of said flaps G will slide down the face of the cloth B and brush from it the flour bolted through the cloth, and the flaps 0 then will fall over until their outer faces strike the gathering-boards at the sides of the chest E and brush the flour therefrom down to the conveyer F, which discharges the bolted flour in the usual way. As the reel A reaches a point in its revolution marked 2, the flaps C will again lie flat upon the cloth B of the reel, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The flaps 0 thus serve to keep the outside of the-bolting cloth 13 clear, to insure the best possible operation of the reel, and also prevent undue accumulation of the flour upon the walls of the chest of the bolt.

The flaps C may be made of muslin or any more or less closely-woven fabric, which will operatesubstantially as above described.

The internal flaps, D, also have important functions as follows: As the reel-ribs reach a point marked 3 in the revolution of the reel, the flaps D will hang upon the inside face of the bolting-cloth B, and as the reel continues its rotation the unbolted material, which tends to move up the side of the reel toward its direction of motion, will slide back upon the flaps D and move the latter down and back toward the rising side of the reel, and when the ribs to which the flaps D are attached have reached a point marked 4 in the revolution of the reel, the flaps having doubled up somewhat loaded with and covered by the unbolted material, suddenly fall downward and scatter the material held by them throughout the interior of the bolting-rcel, thereby thoroughly agitating and breaking up the unbolted material and keeping it in the best possible condition for the effective action upon it of the reel. The flaps. D also brush the inner face of the bolting-cloth B and prevent clogging of the cloth; hence these flaps are especially sertoo viceable when the bran and other coarse sharp grits are separated from the material prior to bolting, as they serve as a substitute for the bran and grits in scouring the lower inner surface of the bolting-cloth and scattering the unbolted material at the upper side of the reel. With these cloth flaps D any kindof soft material maybe bolted. The flapsD will serve to clean and dust the bran when it is fed into the bolt with the rest of the grain; hence their use will be advantageous under any circumstances. These flaps D may be made of any suitable open material which will operate substantially as above described, an open fabric'like a fishnet being at present preferred.

Each pair of flaps O D may consist of one piece of fabric attached to each reel-rib a, in which case the bolting-cloth B will be attached afterward between the ribs, as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A bolting-reel provided with external cloth flaps attached at one edge to the periplr cry of the reel and adapted to brush the outer face of the bolting-cloth, substantially as shown and described.

2. A bolting-reel provided with external cloth flaps attached at one edge to the periphcry of the reel, in combination with the boltchest, whereby the flaps will brush the outer face of the bolting-cloth and also brush the bolted material from the walls of the chest, as set forth 3. A bolting-reel provided with internal cloth flaps attached at one edge to the reel. and adapted to scatter the material being bolted and to brush the inner face of the bolting-cloth, substantially as described.

FRANCIS E. MOMASTER.

Witnesses:

T. S. ELLIOTT, A. J. BARD. 

